LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Monance
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 9.15 in the evening of the 6th of June, 1948, the police reported that a yacht was drag- ging her moorings in a dangerous posi- tion at the mouth of Lymington river, with one man on board, and the motor life-boat...
St. Kilda
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 2.10 on the morning of the 25th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about ten miles from St. Anne's Head.
A light south-west wind was...
St. Gerard
DECEMBER 9TH. -ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 10.40 on the night of the 8th of December it was learned from the Civic Guards that the fishing boat St. Gerard, of Dublin, with a crew of six, was overdue. She had been expected back...
St. Mary
Ballycotton, Go. Cork.—At 9.30 on the night of the 15th of January, 1956, a man reported that his two sons had put off from Cork Harbour in the local seven-ton fishing boat St. Mary, but that they had not returned. The men had left at five...
St. Michael
Arklow, Go. Wicklow.—At 6.5 on the evening of the 24th of November, 1953, fishermen reported that a boat had burnt flares north of Arklow harbour.
At 6.30 the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched. The sea was rough, with a...
St. Patrick
JUNE 13TH. - FISHGUARD AND ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE At 4.40 in the morning a message was received at Fishguard from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire seven miles west of Strumble Head, and at 5.25 the motor life-boat White Star was...
St. Clears
JULY 15TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2 P.M. news was received that the steamer, St. Clears, of Newport, of 8,000 tons, had stranded at Whitberry Ness in a fog, and at 2.5 P.M. the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched. A...
St Irene
At about 2.25 P.M. on 1st December the steam trawler St. Irene, of Hull, stranded on the Inner Binks, when returning, in dense fog, from Bear Island. She was seen from the shore and the No. 2 Motor Life-boat City of Bradford I. put...
St. Helier
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.12 on the morning of the 27th of May, 1951, the yacht St. Heller, of Burnham, was seen a quarter of a mile off the pier, where she had been lying all night.
The coxswain went out to her and found...
St. Lucia
At 4.55 p.m. on 8th December, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an attempt to take an injured man off the trawler St. Lucia by helicopter had been unsuccessful owing to the bad weather, and requested that the...